British Art

Adelaide Damoah is a British artist of Ghanaian descent. Damoah’s current practice involves using her body as a printing tool with oil paint as a medium, later adding images and text to the work. She is inspired by a desire […]

By Elena K. Cruz. Originally published 11 April 2019. Adelaide Damoah’s body remained rooted to the ground as audience members pressed scissors against her traditional Ghanaian funeral dress. The Black British Female Artist Collective founding member opened her palms and […]

Pioneering British artist Penny Slinger, creates work in many mediums and is best known for her surreal dreamlike collages, photography and art performance. Slinger came to prominence in the 1960’s with her radical art and feminist perspective. Recently a film […]

By Elena K. Cruz Phyllida Barlow’s cul-de-sac, at the Royal Academy of Arts to 23 June, turns the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries into both a playground and a church. She balances joy with wisdom and nature with human interpretation. Most impressively, […]

WIA profile: Lindsey Bull We spotted Lindsey Bull at the London Art Fair this year. We were drawn to the Manchester based artists’s luminous portraits and enchanting scenes, Bull is fascinated by those who may be considered on the fringes of mainstream […]

British artist Sarah Sparkes brings together old and new work about spirits and science in her solo exhibition The GHost Parlour at New Art Projects, London, 14 March to 27 April. Sparkes’s work explores mythical narratives, vernacular belief systems and […]

The many faces of Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at White Cube Bermondsey to 7 April 2019. Emin bursts into White Cube Bermondsey with a powerful show of work spanning painting, photography, film, trademark neon, larger than life bronzes, […]

To Delpha Hudson, art is not just visual. She cares about the intentions behind the work, the psychological, the illogical and the sensible. “Art can change not just how and what we see, but what we understand,” she says. “It is […]

London Art Fair: WIA’s favourite way to blast the January blues. As we settle in to the new year, London Art Fair opens today, Wednesday 16th January, at the Business Design Centre, London. Now in its’ 31st year, the Fair features […]

Tate Britain has announced a new display dedicated to women artists working in Britain over the past 60 years which will open in April 2019. Around 60 works, by artists such as Mona Hatoum, Sarah Lucas and Bridget Riley, will […]

Theatre of the Self, by Delpha Hudson ‘The act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman far more than a chapter in cultural history; it […]